Well, MySQL can aggregate the data for you so you don't have to pass it to PHP. It can just give you the results. I suggest reading up on the SELECT COUNT syntax and the GROUP BY syntax in MySQL. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Vinny Gullotta wrote: > Well, what I need to be able to do is then take the numbers of each > count and figure out which is used the most. We use this database to > log actions taken on servers in our network. What my boss wants me to > come up with is a list of which commands are issued the most, which > servers get the most attention, and for each server, which command is > issued the most, and so I was going to kind of do it messy-like as I'm > not really 100% sure of the best way to do it, but my goal was to > create the count variables and then compare them using if statements > to see which one is used the most. If you have a way of doing this > more efficiently, I'd love to hear it. I'm not the best programmer in > the world and I'm kind of just getting back into this stuff, so I'm > all ears for any suggestions you may have =) > > > > > "Micah Gersten" <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:48A1F7A9.6050603@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Why not let the DB do this for you? You can group by whatever column >> that is and select count(*), column_your_looking_for. >> >> Thank you, >> Micah Gersten >> onShore Networks >> Internal Developer >> http://www.onshore.com >> >> >> >> Vinny Gullotta wrote: >>> Nevermind, I figured it out. I needed to make the if statements use == >>> instead of = like this: >>> >>> if ($i[4] == "IISRESET") { >>> $iiscount = $iiscount + 1; >>> } >>> >>> etc. =) >>> >>> >>> ""Vinny Gullotta"" <vgullotta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news:A0.25.04075.476F1A84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> below is the output I'm seeing along with my code. There are 11425 >>>> items in the database, many of each of these possible values for >>>> $i[4], however you'll see from my Output that the $iiscount variable >>>> is the only one being incremented and it is getting incremented for >>>> every row in the table. Can anyone see anything I'm doing >>>> incorrectly? The data in this column in the table is formatted as >>>> TEXT. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. =) >>>> >>>> 11425 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> 0 >>>> >>>> ____________________________________________ >>>> $query = "SELECT * FROM table"; >>>> $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); >>>> $iiscount = 0; >>>> $cfcount = 0; >>>> $nlbcount = 0; >>>> $srcount = 0; >>>> $sacount = 0; >>>> $rebootcount = 0; >>>> $apccount = 0; >>>> $othercount = 0; >>>> >>>> while($i = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { >>>> if ($i[4] = "IISRESET") { >>>> $iiscount = $iiscount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "CF Restart") { >>>> $cfcount = $cfcount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "NLB STOP IISRESET") { >>>> $nlbcount = $nlbcount +1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "Service Restart") { >>>> $srcount = $srcount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "Restart System Attendant") { >>>> $sacount = $sacount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "Reboot") { >>>> $rebootcount = $rebootcount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "APC Reboot") { >>>> $apccount = $apccount + 1; >>>> } elseif ($i[4] = "Other") { >>>> $othercount = $othercount + 1; >>>> } >>>> } >>>> echo $iiscount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $cfcount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $nlbcount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $srcount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $sacount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $rebootcount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $apccount, "<br>"; >>>> echo $othercount, "<br>"; >>>> ?> >>>> >>>> >>> > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
